AHC: "Dr. Who" on CBC-TV

Starting as early as possible, & lasting 20yr or more.

Bonus points if you also get more SF (not counting garbage like "The Starlost" or "Lost in Space":rolleyes: ) on Canadian TV.
 
Starting as early as possible, & lasting 20yr or more.

Bonus points if you also get more SF (not counting garbage like "The Starlost" or "Lost in Space":rolleyes: ) on Canadian TV.
Importing the tape directly from britain? some agreegement of content between BBC and canandian broadcasters?
 
Nope, produced in Canada.
There was talk after season 26 of Doctor Who, of letting a outside production company produce new episodes.
The ones I heard mention included Tatra Film and Australia Jonathan M Shiff production.
So It not impossible that CBC get the rights to continue Doctor Who and the production is done in Canada.
 
There was talk after season 26 of Doctor Who, of letting a outside production company produce new episodes.
The ones I heard mention included Tatra Film and Australia Jonathan M Shiff production.
So It not impossible that CBC get the rights to continue Doctor Who and the production is done in Canada.
That's in the right direction. I had in mind, from Season 1.
 
Importing the tape directly from britain? some agreegement of content between BBC and canandian broadcasters?

You're not going to get broadcast tapes from the UK and you need to understand the medium a lot more. UK TV at the time (1963) was transmitted in 405 lines monochrome, US and Canada 525 line NTSC colour. The way the BBC got round the differing formats around the world was to telerecord the episodes onto either 35mm or more usually 16mm film, basically by pointing a film camera at a flat monitor. It's a lot more involved than that, but you get the idea. Not everyone had the same system, but could transfer film to their local broadcast standard. Once BBC Enterprises (the commercial arm of the BBC, charged with flogging UK programmes around the world to earn a few extra bob for the corporation) had their film copies, the original video tapes were wiped for re-use. That is a rather thorny subject for many fans and it's quite complex with not one single answer as to why it happened. It's regrettable, but taking up pitchforks and frothing at the mouth (as, believe it or not, some of the more rabid fans do!) isn't going to help the issue one iota.

Canada did look at buying Doctor Who - they certainly had the first three serials (An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, The Edge of Destruction) and quite possibly the fourth, Marco Polo, but didn't look at the series again until the early 1970s with Jon Pertwee and colour. Interestingly, the 525 line NTSC copy of Inferno (Pertwee's 4th story) that the BBC hold is an ex-CBC copy.
 
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